Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-16
THE RAILROAD CENTER
| OF Texas. The City OF Fort W0rth-H0W
And in What Time These
Roads We're
Bui.t-som.thing of the Territory They
Bavc Opec ed-1IOre New Roads
To be BULL.
correspondence Of the Kansas City Journal

FORT WORTH, TEX, Aug. u-Fort
Worth is pre-emiaently the railroad cen
ter Of Texas.
Sac he's gained this proud distinction
since July of the Centennial yeaT, II jas:
eleven years.
These railroads are n once her boast
and pride. They are the solid foundation
stones on which she is building vast
commerce. They are the strong, endur-
ing feet limbs Of the mettlesome thor
oughbred that she IS, Thoroughbred that
will Csrry of first money in every race fer
a mighty trade, g racer that Will crow n
herself "Metrop0lis of Texas"
A1d Fort Worth has or will have al
these and their concomitant prizes, be-
cause she richly deserves them. She has
built ell these railroads, not by bonding
Tsrraut county or any CT the townships
within her borders, or her municipal cor
p0ration (uO railroads are built thsc waY
IN Texas nor yet by q too fond reliance
upon Ter fortunate location, the riChnes 2
of her soil and the Immense area tribu-
tary to her. Sac has built them by g
united public spirit, by al indOmitable
energy, by sd un5rOken vigil OF far seeing
men,
BY SUBSCRIPTIONS IN CASH
approximatiDg 100000 end by dong
ticn of MANY broad acres for terminAl
flc lities, machine shops, car work ,
bridge yards, etc, sCEe5 worth now more
tina 81 coo 600. Ia 10 Other way in so
brist ptriCd OF tine cCud sc great q
work have been accomplished.
The method employed in Fort Worth IL
cb aiming her railroads sre worthy Of all
praise and indisput.bI", since they are
matters Of record. But cow do [ know
that she is supreme in her railroad inter
ests? l will tell you, negatively trs.;
Not from hearsay evidence of any charac-
ter; not fr)m vague but irresponSI bic
common reports: uot from the presump
tiCLs of this or that leading Texan, and
not alone from the veraciOu5 say sos CT
the citizens of For WORTH, VINO, by the
wSy, absolutely decline to make any mis-
statements concerning their city on the
broad, safe 2 ounds that al such are ut
terIy unnecessary, the simple truth beng
sutii3 l know it, positively, from an
actual survey OF the entire railway sys-
TEN OF the state, s survey that has cost
me much valuable time ia travel and in
The examination of many voluminOus Of
fetal documents. Iudeed, no Texan who
is accurately informed as to the eXac!
status CT his
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STATE,
questions Fort Worth'5 surprising i'm
portaGce as f. railroad city, end were
not addressing western and northern
men I would not graYely write column
or more to prove the prOpOsitisn.
10 -c+ rood n
was the Texas and Pacific, the main line
a road that now extends across the state,
and that has many important branches; Q
road SO long that you m.y ride in Pull
man car of an express train fer forty
eight consecutive hours and still be in
The state Of Texas eli the time. It IS +he
great highway between the Crescent City
and San Francisco via f. Paso. II is
the great snowless Southern Pacific route
to the Golden Gate for tourists from ST
Louis who, through Branches and direct
! connections, strike the main line al Fort
Worth.
The Eaxt road obtained was the Mis-
souri, Pacific, eud this system now gives
Fort Worth direct communication viii
S. Louis; Hannibal, Wis Sedslia; Kansas
/ City, via Nevada; Fort Scott and Parsons
| Kan; the rich coal fields of McAllistel
| and other points in the Indian Territory
and so on down through Denison TO For
Worth. From here it extends direct t
Waco, Austin, San Antonio aud Laredo
on the Rio Grande river, where cOnneC-
tons ere made through Eastern MeXiCaI
railroads for the city OF the MonteZumas
THE GUILE, COLORADO AND SANTA FL,
kno as the Midland route, extends from
Fort Worth directly to Galveston. Leave
| Fort Worth in the morning, and in TIT
evening you c:n take plunge in the sur
on Galveston beach-the finest in TIL
worlds beach thirty miles long, free
from distractions and treacherous sands
and go hard your buggy wheels leave
scarcely trace behind. Why this besci
IS not greater favorite with pleasure
seekers is ineXpliCable to me. yellow
fever has not been epidemic here 70
twenty years, and isolated cases hav
been rare. And, as to heat, l tell yol
there is more suffering from it at Mime
tonka or Clear Lake or Long Branch O
Coney Island than there is in Galveston
and all because Dame Fashion has DEGREES
. greater ltorridity for those southern
skies than the facts warrant.
Pardon the digressIOn, and | will return
10 Fort Worth's railroads, when | hay
remarked that Texas hiss within her owl
ample boundaries not only every plant
shrub, tree, vegetable growth and sub
; stance that can administer to the physica
wants, that can satisfy the epicurea
tastes, that can please the cultured fancie
OF her citizens, but she has also the fines
pleasure grounds on the globe in her
GALVESTON BEACH.
This roaG, the Gulf, Colorado and SAINT
F., recently became part Of the Atchi
sou, Topeka and Santa Fa system, con
Meeting at Fort Worth with the Santa Fe
though the Indian Territory and int
Texas through Gainesville to this city
TIE Santa Fe thus connects Fort Wort
,, directly with Kansas City connectiO
which both cities mutually prize.
The Fort Worth aud New Orlesns ros
Is another important outlet to the soutf
, esst. Being Z part of the Houston an
= Texas Central system, it affords diret
route to Houston, New Orleans and gu
ports, snd carries Fort Worth's mer
:, ch2ndise into large, rich territory.
; The Fort Worth and Denver City roa
is ROW completed TO point in the Psi
, handle, the graa! cattle region of Texa
!. northwest Of Fort Worth 3lS miles.
is being extended IS rapidly as men al
: money cgn push it, and by September
. It will be in running order TO the CAuEdis
river. The western line Of the state vi
be gained by January l, 1883, and
December OF next year twill be in oper
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